HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 301 292
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing HP 81 70 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.19% 1.07% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 52 80
10th Percentile £154 £209 £185
25th Percentile £176 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +1.39% +5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £574 £594
90th Percentile £581 £600 £624
England median daily rate £215 £425 £375
% change year-on-year -49.41% +13.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 2
10th Percentile £20.82 - £20.28
25th Percentile - - £20.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +13.38% -13.00%
75th Percentile - - £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.83
England median hourly rate £22.27 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.92% +0.75% +0.38%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,783 6,528 7,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.11% 44.29% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 4,079 5,043
10th Percentile £350 £313 £298
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £646 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 70 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.80 £16.63
25th Percentile £21.73 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -12.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £42.35 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.54 £81.93 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £46.12
% change year-on-year -20.83% -34.95% +69.24%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -2 10 £496 +41.57% 10
West London -16 1 £475 +86.27% 2
South London - 1 £175 - 1
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (13.58%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (4.94%) BASE24
3 3 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (2.47%) PORTIA
4 2 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (1.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.91%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.47%) GCP
4 2 (2.47%) IaaS
4 2 (2.47%) PaaS
4 2 (2.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.23%) AWS
5 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.23%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (1.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (35.80%) Wireless
2 8 (9.88%) SSL
3 3 (3.70%) Firewall
4 2 (2.47%) DNS
4 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.23%) DHCP
5 1 (1.23%) FTP
5 1 (1.23%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.70%) OLTP
4 1 (1.23%) Big Data
4 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) JIRA
2 6 (7.41%) TestRail
3 3 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.23%) Gatling
4 1 (1.23%) JMeter
4 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.23%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.23%) NUnit
4 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Coded UI
4 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (32.10%) Banking
2 18 (22.22%) Finance
3 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (8.64%) Electronics
6 7 (8.64%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.64%) Marketing
6 7 (8.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.23%) Back Office
7 1 (1.23%) Billing
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) IT Support
2 14 (17.28%) Support Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) IT Engineer
4 11 (13.58%) Break Fix Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Desktop Support
5 10 (12.35%) Senior
6 9 (11.11%) Field Engineer
6 9 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 7 (8.64%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (8.64%) Developer
7 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 6 (7.41%) Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Lead
8 6 (7.41%) ServiceNow Architect
8 6 (7.41%) Test Leader
9 5 (6.17%) Analyst
9 5 (6.17%) Field Support Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Architect
9 5 (6.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) REST
2 9 (11.11%) SOAP
2 9 (11.11%) Web Services
3 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
3 8 (9.88%) Apache Camel
3 8 (9.88%) HTML
3 8 (9.88%) HTML5
3 8 (9.88%) JDBC
3 8 (9.88%) jQuery
3 8 (9.88%) JSON
3 8 (9.88%) LDAP
3 8 (9.88%) ODBC
3 8 (9.88%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (9.88%) SAML
4 2 (2.47%) XML
5 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.23%) Middleware
5 1 (1.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 26 (32.10%) Data Centre
2 12 (14.81%) Driving Licence
3 5 (6.17%) Tandem
4 4 (4.94%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.70%) EMV
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.23%) APACS
7 1 (1.23%) Clustering
7 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) PKI
7 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (38.27%) Android
1 31 (38.27%) Mac OS
2 17 (20.99%) Windows
3 11 (13.58%) Windows 10
4 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) Customer Service
2 16 (19.75%) Agile
2 16 (19.75%) ITSM
3 15 (18.52%) Break/Fix
4 12 (14.81%) DevOps
4 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.58%) Test Management
5 11 (13.58%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (11.11%) Microservices
6 9 (11.11%) Scrum
6 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 8 (9.88%) Defect Management
7 8 (9.88%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (9.88%) Test Strategy
8 7 (8.64%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (8.64%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (8.64%) Programme Management
8 7 (8.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (8.64%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
1 12 (14.81%) SQL
2 6 (7.41%) C
3 3 (3.70%) COBOL
4 2 (2.47%) C++
4 2 (2.47%) Java
4 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.47%) VB
5 1 (1.23%) C#
5 1 (1.23%) Python
5 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 38 (46.91%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) ISTQB
5 5 (6.17%) Degree
6 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.47%) MCITP
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.23%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.23%) HP APS
8 1 (1.23%) ISEB
8 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) SLA
2 6 (7.41%) QA
3 4 (4.94%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Firmware
2 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) HP ALM
2 8 (9.88%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (7.41%) SCCM
4 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.47%) SCOM
5 1 (1.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.23%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (41.98%) Apple
1 34 (41.98%) Dell
2 30 (37.04%) Cisco
3 16 (19.75%) ServiceNow
4 13 (16.05%) Remedy
5 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
6 10 (12.35%) SAP
7 8 (9.88%) BMC
7 8 (9.88%) Ivanti
8 4 (4.94%) Oracle
9 2 (2.47%) Charles River
9 2 (2.47%) IBM
9 2 (2.47%) SimCorp
9 2 (2.47%) Splunk
10 1 (1.23%) Citrix
10 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.23%) Meraki
10 1 (1.23%) MobileIron
10 1 (1.23%) New Relic
10 1 (1.23%) VMware